Weak Gravitational Lensing as a Method to Constrain Unstable Dark Matter

Details Weak Gravitational Lensing as a Method to Constrain Unstable Dark Matter Weak Gravitational Lensing as a Method to Constrain Unstable Dark Matter

2010-11-11

arxiv.org/abs/1011.2774v2

Phys.Rev.D82:123507,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

12 pages, 5 figures. Minor changes, typos fixed, references added, results and conclusions unchanged. Accepted for publication

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.82.123507

The nature of the dark matter remains a mystery. The possibility of an unstable dark matter particle decaying to invisible daughter particles has been explored many times in the past few decades. Meanwhile, weak gravitational lensing shear has gained a lot of attention as a probe of dark energy. Weak lensing is a useful tool for constraining the stability of the dark matter. In the coming decade a number of large, galaxy imaging surveys will be undertaken and will measure the statistics of cosmological weak lensing with unprecedented precision. Weak lensing statistics are sensitive to unstable dark matter in at least two ways. Dark matter decays alter the matter power spectrum and change the angular diameter distance-redshift relation. We show how measurements of weak lensing shear correlations may provide the most restrictive, model-independent constraints on the lifetime of unstable dark matter. Our results rely on assumptions regarding nonlinear evolution of density fluctuations in scenarios of unstable dark matter and one of our aims is to stimulate interest in theoretical work on nonlinear structure growth in unstable dark matter models.

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